Biden Campaign Pulls No Punches In Calling Out Ron DeSantis For Racism
Biden-Harris 2024 campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond called out Ron DeSantis for pandering to extremists with racism about slavery.
Biden-Harris 2024 campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond called out Ron DeSantis for pandering to extremists with racism about slavery.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) angrily called out House Republican racism and Islamophobia and said she didn’t get a single apology from Republicans after her life was threatened.
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has responded to Trump’s racist attacks against her as the rest of her party enables him with silence.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that a Herschel Walker victory will mean that everybody will stop calling him and other Republicans racist all of the time.
Apparently, the MAGA movement has evolved to the point that some believe the proudly racist element has to be even more open with even greater clarity.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) danced around a question about 77% of Republicans don’t think it is important to condemn racism.
Tucker Carlson wanted to “debate” Chuck Schumer on his Fox News show. Schumer declined his offer but told the Fox Host to stop promoting replacement theory.
Sen. Chris Murphy called out Fox News, Trump’s political operation, and the GOP for normalizing racism and the racist ideology.
The perception has been that Tucker Carlson is leading Fox News viewers to more racism, but it turns out that it is the viewers leading Carlson.
The NFL that publicizes ending racism, presumably to sell its product, also deeply believes in the intellectual inferiority of Black players,
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki quoted Ronald Reagan back to conservatives who are accusing Biden of reverse racism in his Supreme Court nominating process.
After being criticized for a statement that suggested that African-Americans aren’t Americans, Mitch McConnell said that calling him racist is hurtful.
Having learned nothing from the Trump years, the mainstream press is now calling Tucker Carlson’s white supremacy grievance.
A big talking point for the current incarnation of the GOP is that racism doesn’t exist. During his recent address to America, Joe Biden talked about systemic racism and how the country might combat the issue. To Tim Scott, who gave the rebuttal to Biden’s speech, it isn’t all that big a deal. The South…
Asked to respond to remarks from South Carolina Republican Tim Scott that the United States “is not a racist country,” Vice President Kamala Harris concurred but stressed that the history of racism in the country should be addressed openly. “No. I don’t think America is a racist country but we also do have to speak…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proclaimed that there is no systemic racism in America because Obama and Kamala Harris got elected.
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is being blasted for claiming the GOP is not the party of nativist dog whistles.
House Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar are starting an America First caucus to “respect Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”
April Ryan is the latest high-profile media figure to call out the Republican Party for not liking the browning of America and cheating at the polls.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell threatened corporations with “consequences” if they continue to stand against racist voter suppression laws.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that President Biden was “playing the race card” by trying to protect voting rights.
In 2020, Democrats were able to regain control of the White House and the Senate. It would have been impossible to do so without the state of Georgia. The long time red state turned purple in the last calendar year. In November, Joe Biden secured the state’s 16 electoral votes. In January, Raphael Warnock and…
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) said that Sen. Ron Johnson wants credit for his racism and that Republicans can’t win without racism.
On Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle about their time in the White House. Mouths dropped across the world as Markle talked about the racism she faced as a member of the Royal family. And it took the Royal family quite a while to respond to the accusations. They did that…
Activists have been talking about systemic racism for a number of years. But the problem came to a head in 2020 thanks to the killing of George Floyd. Following that incident, politicians became much more comfortable talking about the problem and how to combat it. And the admission that systemic racism exists enrages a number…
Senate Republicans are now gearing up to acquit Trump in an impeachment trial on the specious rationale that putting a former officeholder on trial is unconstitutional, even though legal scholars, including some from the conservative Federalist Society, have broadly affirmed the constitutionality of such a proceeding. While this argument is their most recent political tactic,…
Calling the events of January 6 a coup denies the historical character of U.S. governmental institutions and once again threatens to distort if not entirely disarm the understanding of racial injustice in America that needs to inform racial transformation to achieve a just America.
Trump tweeted on Thursday morning a racist dog whistle warning that black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won.
Ted Cruz has lashed out at Oprah Winfrey after she openly discussed the issue of white privilege in a new interview. The Republican senator accused Winfrey of racism. Cruz sent a tweet sharing an article from conservative outlet The Blaze slamming Winfrey for highlighting white privilege during an interview on her new Apple TV+ show The Oprah Conversation….
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to get Dr. Anthony Fauci to support ending protests under the guise of stopping the spread of the virus.
This unfortunate and hopefully soon-expiring moment in U.S. history, Donald Trump’s presidency, has been anything but subtle in summoning the worst energies, impulses, and dimensions embedded in the nation’s history and still animating contemporary culture and politics. If it hadn’t been clear during his 2016 campaign when he characterized Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals,…
Trump claimed that racist team names like the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins are a sign of strength as Trump took his racism up a notch. Trump tweeted: They name teams out of STRENGTH, not weakness, but now the Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians, two fabled sports franchises, look like they are going to be…
Press Secretary Kaleigh McEnany crumbled when asked why Trump thinks Bubba Wallace should apologize for a hate crime that he didn’t report.
Larry Kudlow has proven time and again that he wasn’t even qualified to be a cable news personality, much less a White House economic adviser.
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council will debate systemic racism and police brutality in the United States following a call from all 54 African nations. “Structural racism and police violence are issues, which are commonly raised by states and civil society at meetings of the council, as are unlawful killings by police and racial bias…
Trump devolved into a stream of gibberish in which he tried to explain two different meanings of a racist phrase he used to threaten protesters last month.
Fox News personality Tucker Carlson is facing a wave of criticism after using the classic PBS show Sesame Street as an example of “decades of relentless propaganda.” “All of it designed to make us feel that we have no right to stand up for ourselves, to stand up for our country,†he said. “We are too…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson said that back in his day there was real systemic racism, as he downplayed the systemic racism of today.
PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor asked Trump during his press conference about systemic racism and the President silenced the African-American reporter.
Pope Francis commented on the protests that have erupted since George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, saying that Catholics cannot tolerate racism and also “claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.” “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion…
White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said that there is no systemic racism in US law enforcement, just a few bad apples.
Joe Biden called out Trump for spreading casual racism and hate against Asian-Americans and doing nothing to protect them from hate and attack.
Instead of educating or informing the American people, the White House is defending Trump’s racist spin on the coronavirus.
We continue on the journey of asking ourselves what kind of country we want to be, as impeachment hearings continue to build the strongest case imaginable against Donald Trump, and his administration continues to do horrible things to the extensive list of people it considers “other.†For the longest time, Trump’s draconian treatment of immigrants…
Last Thursday the Trump administration announced its intention to revoke California’s right to set its own auto emissions standards. The state’s special authority to set its own standards, stricter than federal regulations, dates back to the 1960s when California was battling particularly severe air pollution. Since then, however, California has been influential in encouraging other…
Beto O’Rourke said that Trump tries to distract people from their daily lives with his racist attacks and threats of violence.
Pete Buttigieg made a clear argument that people who vote for Trump are looking the other way on racism and giving a racist president 4 more years.
Netanyahu is openly interfering in the 2020 presidential election by helping Trump spread his racism with his ban of Reps. Tlaib and Omar from visiting Israel.
Long John Silver’s has pulled all of their advertising from Fox News, and Nestle has dumped Tucker Carlson over parroting of Trump’s racism. Fox News is parroting Trump, and they are losing advertisers Long John Silver’s confirmed they pulled their Fox News ads: CONFIRMED: Long John Silver will no longer advertise on Fox News. In…
Former Vice President Joe Biden had no patience for anyone defending Trump’s disgusting response to the hate in Charlottesville.
Trump called Joe Biden incompetent and showed how scared he is of the former vice president after Biden called him out on his racism.
Beto O’Rourke was asked if there was anything that Trump could do to make this better, and O’Rourke responded by calling out the press for playing dumb to Trump promoting racism.
Former Rep. Mark Sanford said that Trump’s rhetoric is turning the Republican Party into the party of white men and making it impossible for the GOP to grow.
Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington refused to answer when she was asked if Trump would no longer be welcomed at the National Cathedral.
The leadership of the National Cathedral issued a response to Trump’s racist attacks that would shame and humiliate any other president. National Cathedral Condemns Trump’s Racism The leadership of the Cathedral wrote in part: This week, President Trump crossed another threshold. Not only did he insult a leader in the fight for racial justice and…
Trump says African-Americans have been calling him to thank him for his racist attacks on elected leaders and civil rights activists.
Former RNC chairman Michael Steele didn’t just express outrage over Trump’s racism, but he criticized his party for remaining silent.
Fox News is encouraging Trump by disguising his racism as a shrewd political strategy about electoral trends and government waste.
Republicans have offered a ton of weak dodges of Trump’s racism, but none were more pathetic than Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).
Trump wants everyone talking about his racism instead of the investigation that Rep. Cummings is doing into Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s crimes.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) defended his constituents and responded with total class after a racist attack from Donald Trump.
Trump wants Democrats to apologize to him for his racist attacks, which he is trying to disguise as patriotism.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) explained why Trump’s racism is backfiring on the president by proving that he’s a racist.
Trump’s controversial tweet about sending the squad of four— Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar—back to where they came from has certainly captured the media’s attention the past week, recycling seemingly endless and pointless debate about whether or not Trump is a racist Don’t we have bigger issues of racism to…
In the first round of Democratic primary debates, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke up strongly not just in favor of women’s democratic rights but in favor of the necessity of having women representing themselves both on the political stage and in the proverbial political back room in advocating for their own interests. The second part of…
Biden dropped a huge dose of straight talk on Donald Trump and the MAGA racism that was spewed at a campaign rally this week.
There is a simple reason so many Republican leaders are standing by Trump after his shameful rally in North Carolina: The GOP needs racism to survive.
Nicolle Wallace put into context the damage that Trump has done to the presidency by playing clips of former presidents and candidates denouncing racism and Obama singing Amazing Grace.
Even though a bipartisan majority voted to formally condemn Donald Trump’s racism on Tuesday, the vast majority of Republicans stood by the president.
Instead of speaking out against Trump’s racism, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed the four House Democratic women that the president attacked. Mitch McConnell Blamed House Democratic Women for Trump’s Racism McConnell said, “We’ve heard facilities on the U.S. Border called concentration camps. We’ve seen the far left throw accusations of racism at everyone. Anyone…
From the United Kingdom and Canada to Germany and Belgium, the advanced world stepped up and condemned Donald Trump’s racism.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unloaded on Senate Republicans for staying silent on Trump’s racism.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will introduce a resolution in the House condemning Trump’s racist and xenophobic attacks against four non-white Democratic congresswomen.
CNN put out a public plea for any Republican member of Congress to come on the air and criticize Trump’s racism, and they couldn’t find anyone.
Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for his racist attack on non-white congresswomen while trying to embrace Israel.
Bill Maher used one of Fox News’s favorite slurs against immigrants to turn the tables on the gaffe infested network.
The bar for Fox News is pretty low, but even the right-wing propaganda network should be able to recognize that Tucker Carlson’s time is up.
Nicolle Wallace played two clips of Rep. Mark Meadows to demonstrate that the Republican congressman is a card-carrying member of the racist birther movement.
“Morning Joe†co-host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday looked at the recent statements and actions of Donald Trump and said that he is amazed that the president still still has any supporters left. While talking about Trump’s decision to bypass congressional authority to fund his proposed border wall by declaring a national emergency, Scarborough said it was…
Senior General Motors Co executives met this week with Ohio’s two senators and other lawmakers on Capitol Hill after African American employees sued the automaker accusing it of allowing a racially hostile work atmosphere.
Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) knows a lot about racism. He is an African American himself, and he has always been loyal to his party. But when it comes to racism, he refuses to stay silent. But this morning Steele had some harsh words for his fellow Republicans all…
It is very clear that all Republicans, but especially President Donald Trump, are growing increasingly desperate as the midterm elections grow near. While they had initially planned to base their November campaigns on the great economy and the wonderful benefits of their tax plan, they have discovered that those ideas aren’t working. Most American voters…
Donald Trump’s politics of racism and division are backfiring as a new poll of Latino voters found that Trump has a 26% approval rating and that Latino voters want a Democratic Congress by a more than 3-1 margin.
Donald Trump said on Saturday he condemns “all types of racism and acts of violence,” appealing for unity ahead of the anniversary of a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, the president said that his initial racist insults of immigrants didn’t go far enough.
Roseanne completed her ode to President Trump and his white supremacist ideology with a rant during which she yelled, “I thought the b*tch was white!” to justify her racism against Valerie Jarrett.
The United States Supreme Court is seen as the last resort for Americans whose views are not shared by the majority. However Tuesday’s ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban was called a “decision that will live in infamy.†Most people don’t know that the Supreme Court in the past has issued other infamous rulings…
Roseanne Barr returned to Twitter and defended her racist on Valerie Jarrett by retweeting a meme of Jarrett and Zira from The Planet Of The Apes.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) used Paul Ryan’s words about Trump’s racism against him, and asked if Trump is racist, why are Republicans cozying up to him.
The media needs to face the reality that Roseanne’s hate is nothing special; it’s exactly what is behind the “real America” they are so obsessed with.
ABC swiftly announced that they had canceled the second season of their Roseanne revival after the star went on a racist tirade that compared dark-skinned women to apes.
This isn’t about enacting a humane and effective immigration policy. It’s about continuing to convince angry white voters that all of their troubles should be pinned on voiceless brown people.
As the Florida prepares to arm school staff in 14 days, a second middle school teacher was accused of racism, this one for calling students “n*ggers,” telling white girls not to date black boys, and calling students dumb.
“I think we need to be honest and acknowledge it. I think the fact that people sit here now and say, well, this has nothing to do with race. Yeah, it does.”
A White House aide leaked to the press that Trump’s real plan for 2018 is to exploit cultural issues to fire up Republican voters ahead of the midterms by dividing the country with racism. Axios reported: A source close to the White House tells me that with an eye to getting Republicans excited about voting…
DNC Chair Tom Perez took back patriotism for the rest of the country and revealed the un-Americanness of Trump’s immigrant rhetoric during an interview on MSNBC. Video: This is why the immigration issue is a big winner for Democrats. Republicans are delusional if they believe that this ends well for them. https://t.co/cqYy2CFMMk #p2 #ctl #dreamers…
Trump responded that he wanted immigrants from other non-white parts of the world out of the United States when he was asked about his immigration views in the White House.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was asked by reporters if Trump was racist. His emotional response should inspire those who believe in decency and equality to fight on.
“The chief executive of the United States, the commander in chief has racist ideas about America and this country, and the American people, all 320 million of us, better figure out what the do about it.”